*Day 35*
So the first chapter says, the Brahman won for the devas. All the devas formed their glory from the victory of the Brahman. They started thinking, "This glory is ours".
Any talent you have, you think it is yours? No. It is a gift. If you have money and if you think you have made a lot if money, no it's a gift. You think you have a great voice and you made an effort to earn that great voice? No it's a blessing.
What is there, your progeny is a blessing or a curse, your money is a blessing or a curse. If you have money, you have comfort. But you have money you can have problems too.
You don't even have a friend, you can't know who is your friend. If you don't have money at least you know who your friend is. If you have money you don't know whether they are friendly with you because of you or for your money. Money is a blessing.
Your voice is a blessing. Progeny is a blessing. Everything is a blessing - It's all done on the subtle level. Angels, the subtle beings do the whole job and what you are doing here is only a reflection.
And suddenly you are happy or suddenly you are miserable. You think, "Oh I did this", or "I did that". You don't have a vision of what's happening out there and who is in control. Do you think you are doing or controlling things in the short span of time you are embodied on this planet? No.
This has been governed by a permanent council, a larger council and here you are just pawns. You are not a player at all. You think you are a player? You are just a pawn who is being moved.
A pawn which is moving just thinks, "Oh look, I have moved in front of horses or elephants or king and queen. It is a mistake my dear. It is one hand that is moving all the pawns on one side.
Actually it is doing from both sides. There is only one player playing on both sides. Both sides of the chess match is being played by the same person.
So it was a victory for Brahman, but the devas thought "It is my victory" because devas, the Divine beings the Gods and Goddesses are not free. They have their desires and goals and are not totally free.
They are not perfected beings. That's why after being a deva for sometime you have to comes back to human life to become liberated. That's why it is said that the human birth is most precious, even better than that of the devas.
In heaven there is everything. There is plenty of pleasure and joy but no love. To experience love, even the devas have to come down to earth to become perfected beings.
So in millions of years, one deva comes, experiences the earth then goes back. These are the transitions from one space to another space. It is a continuous process.
In this huge process, in this magnanimous management, that's happening with such a great sketch and a map and a plan, we think we are doing something.
It is like someone has opened the coke bottle and bubbles are coming out and the bubbles think, "Oh look. I opened the lid." Someone opened the lid and you are simply bubbling up. And for how long are you going to be bubbling there?
When the bubbles come, in minutes they disappear and that's all this human life is. And we think we are in control of the planet. We are in control of elements or we are in control of things.
No it appears like that because the consciousness which is underneath all this is playing the entire game. So when this happened, one Yaksha came to know this and this Yaksha came in front of the devas. Yaksha is much below devas.
This is a phenomenon happening on the subtle. You can understand it as a story but it is a phenomenon that happens everyday. Once in New York Johnny Osborne and Bhanu were with me in a house and in the middle of the night, sometime around 2 or 3 o'clock and the Yaksha, the Spirit of New York came.
It was the first time I interacted with the Yaksha of New York. It said : "What can I do for you?" I said : "Thank You nothing. " Whenever someone asks me what can I do for you, I say nothing.
It looked a little disappointed and went and the next morning they all experienced that at that time suddenly, a presence coming into the hall, just being there. The next day I had a talk in the UN.
When I was sitting in the hall where I was supposed to deliver a speech there were hardly 10-15 people in a hall meant for 500 people. I knew that this was the Job of that Yaksha. It was disappointed and didn't send any body.
I just said, "Oh good this" I acknowledged, "Oh you have done this." And in 2 minutes the door opened and the hall was filled. I told our 8-10 organisers who were sitting, that I should have asked for something.
For example give us some centre or do something. Then it could have been happier. I said I want nothing so it felt so disappointed. It wanted to do service, something. Later on I thought probably I should have asked for something.
